The case presented against one of the men accused of murdering Irish gangland boss Robbie Lawlor was "a masterpiece of vagueness", a court was told on Friday.
Larry Ryan s biggest winners and losers of 2020
Including save of the year, film of the year, worst special effects, and greatest national shame
SLIDING DOORS: Ireland’s Conor Hourihane reacts after his costly miss against Slovakia in the Euro 2020 qualifying play-off semi-final. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Sat, 02 Jan, 2021 - 07:00 GOAL OF THE YEAR
Richie Hogan: Traditionally, the garrison game and its exponents get short shrift during the big championship clashes, but Richie’s magic moment revealed nearly every Hurling Man’s latent appreciation of Dennis Bergkamp. SAVE OF THE YEAR
Connell Waldron had his shot saved
Presumably, Paul Mescal will get some class of All-Star for services to selling togs. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that Lenny Abrahamson eventually had to persuade unheralded keeper Adam O’Connor to let in Mescal’s winner in the Sligo schools final after a couple of worldie saves in the Normal People rough cuts.
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TV Wrap of 2020 - The best, worst and WTF moments of the year sport became a television show
We look back at some of the best and the bizarre moments from a year of TV sport like no other. By Gavin Cooney Wednesday 30 Dec 2020, 7:00 AM Dec 30th 2020, 7:00 AM 13,999 Views 2 Comments
THERE WAS ONCE an ancient age in which we could be moved by the totally irrelevant, and what’s more, it was only this year.
Clare County Councillor Gerry Flynn got a couple of spins through the February news cycle in petitioning the Minister for Communications to reinstate Joe Brolly to The Sunday Game, telling the Irish Times, “I am a sports fanatic and I am suffering from withdrawal symptoms since he was removed from the RTÉ panel.”
I cannot for the life of me understand why we are allowing so many people into the Irish Republic by way of Northern Ireland when we have placed travel restrictions on other ports and airports.
People flying in to Belfast and Derry airports from London and other parts of the UK are travelling to their destinations by bus or hired car. It is total madness given the restrictions and lockdown in the UK.
I can understand people want to get home for Christmas but to risk not only yourself but your family members and loved ones is a tad inconsiderate, or even selfish, given the health crisis we are in.
His team left every fibre, every cuticle out on that field and yet, for the last 10 minutes or so, Dublin were rolling home with all the ease of a pleasure steamer. We are just stenographers in their world now, tasked with transcribing the small detail of outlandish numbers.
They are an imperious, undramatic team built to work through these days logically and without fuss.
It’s true that nobody rattles Dublin physically quite like Mayo, yet where is the comfort in that after eight years without a league or championship win against the city team? So just take some pictures and place them in plastic like the others.